Quotes About Heart

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

The purpose of all major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

In fact, all of your theological concepts may only serve to cool the fire of love in the will.

we humans cannot be surgical with our feelings. If you open up to one feeling, they all come. Cheryl is knocking hard on Paul's door. But opening up his heart to her means reopening the door he firmly closed as a child. He is routinely subject to emotions, but he doesn't have the tools to identify them.

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.

Smile with your lips, smile with your eyes, smile with your heart and your soul and your life.

Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear.